Competition Rounds

Application

Application submissions are accepted from 1 February to 30 October 2020. Applicants are evaluated on their proposed Competition programming, experience relative to age, and confidential reference letters.

Quarterfinals

Each Quarterfinalist performs a 40-minute solo recital and 10-minute interview with an arts journalist in either New York or Berlin in March 2021. Quarterfinal recitals are not open to the public.

Semifinals

Each Semifinalist performs in two separate rounds.

Semifinals I

A 65-minute solo recital which must include a newly commissioned work by Canadian pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear.

Semifinals II

A 60-minute solo / collaborative recital which must include one of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas, one piece from Fritz Kreisler’s Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, and solo repertoire to complete the program.